Unfried Chicken with Roasted Brussels Sprouts Reviews

With tongue in cheek, I call this chicken "unfried." That's because I am well known for fried chicken, which may be the crown jewel of southern cooking but is a dish I avoid these days. I like unfried chicken just as much. The chicken is soaked in tangy buttermilk and then coated with flavorful breading, just like fried chicken. The difference is that it's baked. This dish was on the menu at LYFE Kitchen. I first prepared it when Oprah's movie Beloved opened. One of the many lessons I learned from Oprah is to offer people a choice at meals, and one of those choices should be a healthy one. To this day I honor that lesson in my home and my restaurants.

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I concur with the reviews here. The chicken was moist but spicy. I would not add the cayenne to the coating next time. My sprouts were large and caramelized perfectly in the time allotted. I liked the fact that both dishes cooked at the same temp for same amount of time- make prep and dinner time easy.

The first time I tried this, I made the brussels sprouts only and found them mushy. The second time, I left the sprouts whole (they were small) and they were perfection. I'm cooking them this way again tonight! The chicken was a wee bit of a disappointment - despite using panko, the coating was soggy and the flavours didn't quite work for us. As the previous reviewer noted, it is very spicy! On the plus side, the chicken was moist.

This recipe was extremely easy to make, and the chicken came out crispy on the outside and moist on the inside. I will say that the chicken is pretty darn spicy, so if you are sensitive to spicy foods I would recommend using less hot sauce and cayenne. I love Brussels sprouts, and think they taste delicious anyway they are prepared, but I think they might need to roast a little longer than 20min, at least for me only the smallest brussels sprouts were actually caramelizing. Overall a good and simple, relatively healthy weeknight meal.